Excerpt from The Archaeology of the Holy Land Professor Steuernagel's Tell el-mntesellim (leipzig, to Professor Sellin's Tell T a'anne (vienna, and Eine Natnlese anf a'em Tell T a'anne (vienna, from volumes 1 and lii of the Denksenrzften of the Vienna Academy (phil.-hist. Klasse) respectively, and to the same scholar's jerieno (leipzig, 1913) in which Dr. Watzinger co-operated. He is also greatly indebted to P re Hugues Vincent's Canaan a apres L'exploration retente (paris, Lastly, he has to acknowledge his Obligations to the numerous works which have been published from time to time by the Palestine Exploration Fund, amongst which A Monna' of Many Cities, by Dr. F. J. Bliss, Excavations in Palestine, written by the same scholar in co-operation with Professor R. A. S. Macalister, and Professor F linders Petrie's Tell el-hesy, must be specially mentioned. But most Of all is he indebted to Professor Macalister's Excavation of Gezer (3 published under the auspices of the same fund. This epoch-making work is by far the most important contribution that has been made to the science of Palestinian Archaeology, and is in fact an inexhaustible mine of information upon which all students Of the subject will be largely dependent for many years to come. The same scholar has also, in the midst Of all his other work, found time to give him additional information on some Of the subjects dis cussed in this present volume, for which he takes this Opportunity of expressing his sincere thanks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.